Vaginal glass applicator.



UNITED sTAT s PATENT orrron.

VAGINAL GLASS APPLICATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed June 25, 1904. $erial No. 214,102.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LJMAURIOE B. PEARLSTIEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulVaginal Glass Applicator, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the means of alleviating allforms of chronic or passive inflammations of the vaginal or uterinecanal and its appendages. Formerly this object was sought to beattained'by efiecting hot or cold applications by means of a syringe,nozzle, or the so-called vaginal douche, whereby hot or cold water wasintroduced into the vagina; but that process, while slightly diminishingsuch inflammation, is attended with considerable discomfort in the useof it,-

because it necessitates repeated applications of the syringe, nozzle, ordouche to attain any result and ordinarily requires the patient to makesuch applications while in a bath-tub,.

and, moreover, such hot or cold, moist or wet applications, althoughmomentarily relieving the patient, produce an esurient effect on her,

who acquires an almost irresistible desire for repeated applications,and by the use of the numerous vaginal irrigators the natural secretionsare invariably washed away and the mucous membrane of the vaginal canalbecomes irritated, often resulting in septic poisoning of the uterus,because the nozzle, the flow of water, or both, will find their way intothe uterine canal, and thus act as a foreign body. I attain this objectby means of dry applications of hot or cold water, according to theacuteness of the inflammation, which is made possible by the vaginalglass applicator which I have invented for that purpose.

Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings represents the vaginal glassapplicator, and Fig. Qin the drawings represents the applicator with therubber tubes and water-bag hereinafter described attached.

The vaginal glass applicator, Fig. 1, in the accompanying drawings,consists of an outer closed tube with an inner open tube, made of glass,preferably Vienna glass, which is less brittle and less subject tobursting from heat.

As is shown in the accompanying drawings, the vaginal glass applicatoris of a length, curve, and thickness to fit. the normally constructedvagina. It may be made of other sizes, as may be required. Theapplicator is slightly curved in shape for the better access into thecanal and has a depressed end 0 in Figs. 1 and 2, so that when theapplicator is introduced into the vagina and then pushed upward andbackward until it finds its way to the posterior cul-de-sac the cervixuteri will rest upon the depressed end of the applicator.

The outer tube of the applicator contains a narrow inner tube D in Figs.1 and 2, extending to the end which is depressed, as aforesaid, andbeginning with a curved or crooked neck A for the purpose of fittingthereto an ordinary soft-rubber tube F, leading to an ordinary water-bagE, containing hot or cold water. The neck A is curved for the purpose ofseparating it as much as possible from the other neck B of the outertube of the applicator, which is placed there for the purpose ofobtaining an outflow of the hot or cold water circulating in theapplicator from the waterbag, and to that end another soft-rubber tube Gis attached to the neck B, so as to lead ofi the water thus constantlycirculating in the vaginal glass applicator to any convenient vesse] orreceptacle. By means of the inner tube a perfect circulation of thewater is secured, thus maintaining an equal temperature throughout theapplicator. An even temperature is thus produced in the entire length ofthe vaginal glass applicator by the constant circulation therein of hotor cold water, as the case may be, from the water-bag, which may be of atemperature to suit the patient.

Hot application to the vaginal or uterine ca nal and its appendages isof the utmost value in all forms of chronic or passive inflammations,especially when accompanied by displacements of the uterus. Dry heat ismore stimulating, less irritating, and may be used with greater safetyand benefit to the patient than wet applications. The introduction ofthe vaginal glass applicator into the vaginal canal is easy ofaccomplishment, and dry-heat applications thereby effected alleviate'allsuch infiammations spoken of, especially when such inflammations areaccompanied by displacements of the uterus, except when theinflamnozzle, the flow of water, or both, acting as a foreign body, andsince the temperature in the entire applicator is always even by reasonof the constant flow of such hot or cold water therein as will suit theparticular .patient it may be kept in place in the canal a sufiicienttime to reduce or alleviate such inflammations, thus obviating entirelythe necessity for repeated introductions of the nozzle or the douche andthe consequent friction and irritation of the mucous membrane of thecanal. Moreover, dry-heat applications, thus made feasible by means ofthe vaginal glass applicator, produce more beneficial results in curingsuch distempers for the reasons already stated and also because theapplications are constant and not intermittent, and are thus much morestimulating.

There is also another advantage which is obtained by means of thevaginal glass applicatorto Wit, the greater comfort with which theapplications can be madefor the applications being dry they may be madein any place in a lying posture, not requiring at all the use of abath-room for that purpose.

I do not claim as my invention any tube with a circulation of watertherein by means of an inner tube; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

A vaginal glass applicator, consisting of a glass tube, slightly curved,and with its end depressed for the purpose of warm or cold vaginalapplications, fitted with an inner tube for the purpose of circulationof Water therein, as hereinbefore described, and also with tWo necks forthe inflow and outflow of such water,substantially as hereinbeforedescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresenceof two subscribing Witnesses.

MAURICE B. PEARLSTIEN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. ABBOTT, BENJAMIN JAFFE.

